Trigger for dissing therapists.

I went to the T search here on Psych Central and put in my zip code (not for the first time). I got over 80 T's listed within 25 miles of where I am (I put in 10 miles but it reset to 25). I copied the text of how they described their therapies, and pasted it into a text file; the word count was 14325 words, though that has to be approximate.

I read the descriptions, then put signs in front of the text for each T, ranking them. It went, in my ranking, from minus one to minus three. Meanie that I am, I added, in my text file, a few snide comments for the ones which triggered me the most. I did not find a single one that impressed me greatly -- positively, that is. In particular, the greatest number of them did not tell me clearly what they actually do in therapy. Some give names of therapies that they practice, but none really say what they do. Much wishful thinking, but no specifics that let me have a good idea of what they do that's different from anyone else in order to make their wishes or promises come out the way they say.

(Many of the descriptions contained spelling or grammatical mistakes. If they don't care enough to use a spelling checker, how can I think they care enough to think clearly about what they do as therapists?)

I'm fed up.

Now you are going to ask me what I do want as a therapist, or as someone to help me in any way. I wrote something up, but I don't know that I wrote anything comprehensible, or if anyone will understand it, or if anyone here does, what can you do about it?

Nothing.

I should shut up. I mean, I must be wrong, right? I cannot be the one who is right and all those degreed T's wrong, right?